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Anglomania (Part 2): Federico Mazzucchelli witness and critic of the “British Fashion”
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini In the first part of this article we saw that, in the eighteenth century, a growing interest in the British institutions and culture spread throughout Europe. This trend also…
21/08/2016 -
The new Equestrian Art Library in Queluz, Portugal
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini Perhaps some of you may think that this is a place just for scholars or old-fashioned professors’ stuff. But the Equestrian Art Library “Dom Diogo de Bragança, VIIII Marques de…
13/06/2015 -
An encounter that never occurred. Baucher and Mazzucchelli
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini In 1948, the General Albert Decarpentry published a famous biography of the greatest French horseman of the nineteenth century, François Baucher. Speaking of his early years, Decarpentry said that…
17/12/2012 -
Federico Mazzucchelli
by Giovanni Battista Tomassini Descendant of one of the most prominent families from Brescia, the younger son of the Earl Gianmaria, Federico was born in 1747. He studied in Rome, showing even in…
17/12/2012
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